Alice Oswald Quotes

When you enter a new experience, all that requires healing rushes to the surface . . . You have to pause.

As you work on something, whether it's a painting or a piece of music, it's going to evolve. A relationship is like that too.

People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.

No institution will go through fundamental change unless it believes it is in deep trouble and needs to do something different to survive.

I knew it was happening, but I never paid much attention to it . . . just to the passage of time. Something new always slowly changes right in front of your eyes - it just happens.

I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

Fixing things requires change and change always creates conflict. But that is why you are a leader.

I think the world is changing. And it's changing so fast that people have to change with it.

Change means the unknown.

I can't expect people to decide that they will change with me, so I can see why I'm on the old side.

The only thing that stays the same is change.

The more things change, the more they stay different.

Coming from New York, I know that if you go by a delicatessen, and you put a sweet cucumber in the vinegar barrel, the cucumber might say, "No, I want to retain my sweetness." But it's hopeless. The barrel will turn the sweet cucumber into a pickle. You can't be a sweet cucumber in a vinegar barrel.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

What I'm most excited about is that there's an openness to a shift, and I do think that there's a shift happening.

What's old collapses, times change, And new life blossoms in the ruins.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.

I’ve learned that although our dreams may die, if you open yourself up to life, new ones are born.

In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks of all the influences that surround it.

After weeks on the road, listening to a language you don’t understand, using a currency whose value you don’t comprehend, walking down streets you’ve never walked down before, you discover that your old “I,” along with everything you ever learned, is absolutely no use at all in the face of those new challenges, and you begin to realize that buried deep in your unconscious mind there is someone much more interesting and adventurous and more open to the world and to new experiences.

Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.

In times of turbulence and rapid change, you must constantly be re-evaluating yourself relative to the new realities.

If you try desperately to hang on to something that used to be a success for you, it's going to go away. You have to change.

Where there's no progress, there's no growth. If there's no growth, there's no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.

One thing's for sure. If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect different results.